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HUSTED 

INVESTMENT CO. 

KAN5A5 CITY, KMiSAS, 

JAMES D. HUSTED, Prest. P. D. COBUEN, 2d Vic9 Prest. 

THOS. H. ROWLAND, Vice-Prest. 0. B. BUENHAM, Secy. 



Capital, $500,000 

Full Paid up, 350,000 



Loans, Securities, 

Commercial Paper, 

Real Estate. 



NEW YORK MANAGER, 



PHILADELPHIA MANAGERS, 

F. E. MAINE, Auburn,N. Y. B. F. GLENN k SON, 555 N, I7th St. 



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Alias Sunflower State. 
Alias Corn State. Aiias Prohibition State. 

^HE Iieart ai\d center State of t]:\e 
Ui\ior| ; tt^e largest tract of fertile, 
tillable lar|d of easy access or\ tl\e 
face of tt)e eartl^ ilr\der or\e goVerr\- 
<^'^ nierit; but a fractior\ srqaller tl\ar\ 
Nev^ YorK a:i\d Per|r\sylVar\ia coir\biiied ; lar- 
ger tl\ar\ all Eriglar\d ar\d Wales ; larger tl\ar\ 
Otiio, Ir\diar\a aqd JVlarylar|d ii) or\e, or tt|ar| 
all Ne-W Er\glar\d; tlie lialfwaj ]\oiise be- 
t^eer\ ocear\s, -wl^ere tl]e ^eary liorqe-seel^er 
fir\ds l\is desires rqore r^early fulfilled t]\aT[ 
is possible ir| ar\y regioqless rict\ly er^do-wed. 
Up\^2ards of 52,000,000 acres (82,080 square 



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arid 50,000,000 acres tillable. No 

B^5"Warqp, i\o iqarsti, T[0 desert lar^d. Tl^ree- 
foiirt]:\s of all tljis is yet available for ar\d 
a-Waits tl\e ploiA^ — tt\e iriVitatior\ to blossoiq 

|arid fruit. 

How it prodiices ti\e cl\ief staples as con\- 

opared -witl^ soii\e of tt\e conceded greatest 
agricultural States of tl\e iViississippi Valley 
is told by tl\e figures of tt|e Ur\ited States 
Agricultural Departii|er|t. Tl^ese s]:\oW aver- 
age yields per acre of -wl^eat, corr^ aqd oats 

pr\ tl|ree States for tl\e seveq years, froir\ 

||L882 to 1888, iriclusive, tiius : 



Wheat, bushels, 
Corn, bushels, 
Oats, bushels, 



IND. III. Kan. 

12.08 12.08 14.03 

30.00 27.00 29.0O 

28.30 34.03 30.00 



I^ its October, 1889, reports, tl)e Ur\ited 
States Departrqerit put Kansas al^ead of all 
/tt\e Ur\ior\ for tl\at year ii) its average of 



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•Wtieat yield per acre, ir\ bilstiels, tt^e States 
pron\ir[er\tly producing t]:\is cereal staqdirig 
t]:ius : 

Dakota 8.30 

Nebraska 12.00 

Pennsylvania 12.30 

Missouri 13.00 

New York , . . 13.08 

Iowa 13.10 

Wisconsin 14.20 

Minnesota 14.60 

Michigan 14.70 

Indiana 14.70 

California 15.00 

KANSAS 18.40 

The State Board of Agriculture at tt\ej 
san|e tirqe, ir^ coii|ir\Ur|icatior\ "Witl^ eVery| 
to^ristiip of tlie State, estiii|ated tl^e aver- 
age yield of vv?ir\ter "Wl^eat at 22.58 bxislrielsl 
per acre, or 35,060,048 bilsljels, Tt^e Board's 
estirqate of tl^e year's corr\ crop 'Was ar\; 
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age of 6,820,693— a total of 276,541,338 
bilstiels. 

TYie Board's official returns of sonje of tt\e 
otl\er leadir\g crops of tt^e State for 1889 are : 

Oats, bushels 47,922,889 

Potatoes, bushels ....... 11,432,482 

Hay (all kinds) tons 5,000,000 

(bf he' value of tlie State's l^erds ar\d flocks ; 
*-*- its cattle, tiorses ar\d iqUles, s-Wi^e ar\d 
slieep, ir\ay at a Very Ioy^ appraiserqerit be set 
do^ri at $120,000,000, a^d tlieir surplus pro- 
ducts for tlie year 1889 at $40,000,000— tills 
ii) a year ii\Ucl\ talked of as "a dull tirqe" 
ai\d of loY^ prices. 

Tlie productiveness of its surface (ir\cludii\g 
tl\e rapidly developing sugar interests) seerqs 
lively to alrqost find a parallel in ^ealtl^-pro- 
ductioninits unlin\ited deposits of coal, zinc, 
lead and salt, so easily available to tt\ose "Wl\o 

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efficieritly see]^ ttierq. (Tt^e salt iqdtisti'y ir^ 
Kansas is but little over a year old, yet large 
areas are rio\^^ positively ]^i)ov^r\ to be iir\der- 
laid -Witt^ solid salt 100 feet or rqore ir\ tl\icK- 
ness, ar\d last year tl]e output officially re- 
ported -Was 547,224 barrels, besides 19,056 
tor[S r\ot barreled. Analyses st[Ov^ tt\is salt 
to be 99.99 per cei\t pure.) 

For tt[e rapid ir|OVen\er\t of tt^ese products 
to tt^e iqost favorable rqarl^ets, -wl^ettier foUi\d 
ii\ tl:\e ir|0Ur\tair\ ar\d n\ir\ir[g regions of th^e 
West, th[e cities of tl:\e East, or oi\ tl:\e plai\ta- 
tior\s of tlje Soutti, i\early 9,000 rqiles of 
■Well-equipped railway gridiror\ ttie State ar\d 
give its every coir\n\ur\ity rr\ear[S of ready 
access to every otl^er, "WitJ:|ir\ or "Wit]:\out. 

No or\e Mi\\Q ir\telliger\tly studies a n\ap of 

tl\e Ur\ior\ cai\ fail to discerri \\\q inqperial 

position occupied by Kansas \r\ tl^e sister- 

t^ood of States, ir\ \«^l:\icl\ destir\y seerqs to 

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p]aVe decreed it sl^ould be frorq its first settle- 
|ir|er[t silclx ar\ in|portarit factor. Rryy sucti 
Istuderjt car\ r\ot, eitlr^er, fail to r^ote ttiat -witt^in 
its boundaries is preser\ted tt^e greatest scei\e 
of tiealtt\fill, gro^tl^f III acti\;ity to be -witrjessed 
or\ tl)e globe, ir\ -wlr^atever teqds to tl^e deVelop- 
iqerit of ar\ enipire of "Wealtl) ar\d trappy l:\oii\e- 
iqaKirig. R ii\illior\-ar|d-a-l)alf of people, 
"Worl^ii\g, ^atcl|ir|g ar\d seizir|g iipor\ every 
opportur\ity to forward tl:\e Up-bilildirig of a 
great con\ii\or|'Wealtl:\ ; ariotliei' l:\alf-rr\illior\ 
corqirig or oq tl|e eve of corr|ir\g, locatir\g ar\d 
EqaKirig l^orqes ; tl\OL[sar|ds of r^eW f arnqs 
oper[ir\g up ; a tl:|OUsar\d r\ew sclriool-tiotlses, 
c]:|Lircl\es buildir\g ; tovs^r\s ar|d Villages gro^w- 
ir\g to in\portar\t proportions; everybody aqd 
everyt]:\irig aiiVe ar\d rqovir\g for-Ward to a 
t^igtier plar\e ar\d giving ti\e laryd of tt\eir 
adoption a inore exalted station arqong its 
conterqporaries. 




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A FEW OBSERVATIONS OF KANSAS AGRI- 
CULTURE, AS IMPRESSED ON THE M1ND;| 
OF A TOURIST. 



Every one who comes to Kansas City from Kansas 
these days has his own particular stock of stories to 
tell about the wonderful crops. Among the Sunflower' 
pilgrims who landed in the city on Saturday was:| 
Charley Barrett, the good looking and talkative travel- 
ing passenger agent of the Missouri Pacific. He had] 
spent four or five days in Kansas, and his mouth was; 
going at the rate of 500 revolutions a minute aboutj 
crops, when he was flagged by a Times man on Mam^ 
^street. 

"Wheat !" he exclaimed, "you never saw the like!] 
^The farmers down in Southern Kansas had to rent the| 
j^ public roads to get room enough to stack the wheat^ 
^Wasn't room enough in the fields to hold the stacks.':] 
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"How is the fruit crop?" 

"Fruit ! You never saw the like ! Apples as big as 
cannon balls growing in clusters as big as hay stacks. 
I saw one apple that — " 

"Don't the trees break down? " 
'Trees ! You never saw the like ! The farmers 
planted sorghum in the orchards, and the stalks grew 
up like telegraph poles and supported the limbs. I 
saw one stalk of sorghum that was two feet—" 
; "How is the broom corn crop? " 

''■' "Broom corn ? You never saw the like ! There has , 
not been a cloudy day in southern Kansas for 
month. Can't cloud up. The broom corn grew f 
high that it kept the clouds swept off the face of the 
sky as clean as a new floor. They will have to cut it| 
down if the weather gets too dry. Some of the broom':? 
corn stalks are so high that—" 

"How is the corn crop? " 

"Corn? You never saw the like! Down in the| 
Neosho, Fall River, Arkansas and Kaw bottoms the| 
corn is as high as a house. They use step-ladders to| 
gather roasting ears." 

"Aren't step-ladders pretty expensive?" 

"Expensive ! Well I should say so ; but that isn't 
pte^\|or^|,,^f it. The trouble is that the child^en/jlimj 



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up into the corn stalks to hunt for eagles' nests and 
sometimes fall out and kill themselves. Fourteen 
funerals in one county last week from that cause. I 
attended all of them. That is why I am so sad. And, 
mind you, the corn is not more than half grown. A 
man at Arkansas City has invented a machine which 
he calls 'The Solar Corn Harvester and Child Protec- 
tor.' It is inflated with gas like a balloon and floats 
over the corn tops, and the occupants reach down and 
cut off the ears of corn with a cavalry sabre, and—" 

"Do they make much cider in Kansas ? " 

"Cider ! You never saw the like ! Oceans of it. 
Most of the farmers in Cowley county have filled their 
cisterns with cider. A proposition was made a few 
days since to the water works company of Arkansas 
City to supply the town with cider through the mains, 
but the company Avas compelled to decline, because 
they were afraid the cider would rust the pumps. 
They were sorry, but they said they would have to 
continue to furnish water, although it cost more. I 
saw one farmer who—" 

"How is the potato crop? " 

"Potatoes ! You never saw the like ! A man in 
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so big lie used the cavity it grew in for a cellar. I saw 

one potato that — " 
"The people must be happy over their big crops? " 
"Happy ! You never saw the like ! I know men in 

the Kaw valley who were too poor three years ago to 

flag a bread Avagon, and now they have pie three 

times a day. One fellow that—" 
But the reporter just at this point had a pressing 

engagement elsewhere. 



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of C;o(TiniiJi?ity. ^^ 

I am sure nay predecessor, Governor Martin, in his 
last message spoke with fidelity to truth, without the 
slightest extravagance, when he said of the State he 
has loved and served so devotedly: "I affirm with 
earnestness and emphasis, that Kansas is, to-day, the 
most temperate, orderly, sober community of people 
in the civilized world." 

A State extending from the Indian Territory 200 
miles to Nebraska on the north, from the Missouri 
river 400 miles west to within sight of the very foot 
hills of the mountains of Colorado, with a million and 
three-quarters of thrifty, intelligent, progressive peo- 
ple—yet one may travel for days over her 9,000 miles 
of railroad, touching every organized county M^ithin 
the vast domain, admiring, as he must, the delightful 
alternation of beautiful landscape, rolling prairie, 
fertile valleys, wooded streams, happy hamlets, cheer- 
ful villages and bustling cities ; noting, if he will, 
the ten thousand free school houses, in whose support 
four millions are annually expended, not forgetting 
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ier churches and public libraries, newspapers and 
eleemosynary institutions generously sustained; 
charmed ^^ ith the intelligence and enterprise of her 
people ; fascinated by the present development and 
the boundless possibilities of her material resources 
of field and forest and mine, but he will marvel 
most as he contemplates the fact that he has not 
seen an open saloon within her border. Thanks to 
prohibition. 

LYMAN U. HUMPHREY, 

Governor of Kansas. 



{Pittsburg, Crawford Co., Kansas, is now the second 
zinc-producing city in the world, and in that neighborhood 
41,000,000 bushels of coal were mined in 1889. Having 
both the mineral and the coals to work it, will enable 
Pittsburg to easily lead the world in that line of 
smelting.) 



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51?(? l^aQsas C^itys 

One the Metropolis of a Great State. 
Two THE Commercial Port of an Empire. 

30ilQUIN MILLER recer|tly visited tlje t^o 
cities located at X\\e cor[flileT]ce of t\\e 
Ka-W -Wit!) tt^e Missouri, to see if tl^e tales 
of tl\eir gro^tl), sitilatiori ar\d prospects 
■were based ir\ fact, or, as lie suspected, 
four^ded ii\air\ly or\ tt^at n^aterial of -Wliicti 
fables are rqade. Ttie cor|clilsior\s l\e arrived 
at after ir\Vestigatior\ are giveq ir) part 
(speaKirig of t\\e t-wo cities as or\e, regard- 
less of tl)e iii\agir\ary dividing lii\e), to tl\e 
Ne-W YorK "lAdeperider\t" ir\ tt^is language : 

"This audacious j'oung beauty is the belle of the 

United States. There is no doubt of this fact left 

lingering in j^our mind ten minutes after you have 

set foot in Kansas City. Here she sits in the center of 

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e world, with more railroads pointing right to he| 
feet than are to be found pointing to any one othe 

mmon center on the face of this earth. 
■ This Kansas City is Ceres' own self, for she sits 
the center of the gardens of the universe. Tliousanc 
and thousands of square miles of corn fields circle he| 
about. There is no waste here either of seas, o| 
mountains, or deserts of sand. Every foot is fertill 
land. Look to the East, "West, North, South, nothing 
but one boundless and billowy sea of green or golc 
They tell you that they have this season in the single' 
State of Kansas, in round numbers, 100,000,000 bushels 
of grain to spare. Kansas City calls this fruitful State 
one of her 'feeders.' She calls the City of Denver 
one of her feeders. She claims to have nearly fifty 
cities that are, and are to remain forever, her 'feeders.' 
It is destined to be a great place. So long as the world 
is to be fed, and so long as "there is corn in Egypt," 
this Kansas City will surely be King Corn's capital, 
and the world will pay him court. * * * * i want 
to write it down so plainly that 'he may run who 
reads.' These cities are not braggers, they are build- 
ers. They have a right to tell the truth of themselves 
and be heard respectfully. 




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St^e 5wo 1^39535 gtys ^ 

Or|e ir\ Kansas ar|d. or^e iq JVlissoiIi'i,' 
sustaiq iqucti tl|e san\e relatioq to eactj otl:\er 
as St. Paul ai\d. Mii\r\eapolis do, ^\\\ tl\e 
Rotable exceptior\ ttiat tt^e latter two are sorqe 
rqiles apart, "Wl)ile tt^e |orii\er are r|ot separa- 
ted by eitl:\er laqd or v^ater, t]:\oUgti niar\y 
strarigers suppose tl\at tl:\e iVLissoxiri river 
ruqs bet^s^eeq tlierq. Tl|eir two goVerrirqer|ts, 
]:|0Wever, are as w]:\olly distir^ct as tl\ose of 
tl^e two States \r\ Wtiicl\ tt\ey are located, 
arid ir\ various -features radically different — 
^r\otable ir\star\ce beir\g ttiat everywl\ere 
i:r\sas tl^e saloor\ ar\d its l^eeper are oxit 
5d by tl\e State's cor[Stitutior\. 

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Kansas Ditu, Kansas, 

Or| tlie iVlissouri ar|d Kansas (Ka-W) rivers, 
at ttieir jurictiori, ai\d oVerlooKiiig tt[e Valleys 
of bott|, is tl^e capital of Wyandotte CoUi^ty, 
\v)l:)icl:|, tljoUg;]:! tlxe srqallest of tl^e ]:\iJr\dred- 
odd ir\ tlje State, is surpassed by bxit t^o ir[ 
taxable "Wealthy, possesses rqore tl\ai\ or\e-tl:\ird 
tl^e er\tire capital ir[Vested ii\ ii\ar\iifactiirir\g 
plants (ir|ore tl:\ar\ t]:|e otl:|er five prir\cipal 
cities coir\bir[ed) , aqd f iirriisl:|es r\early 38 per 
,er\t of its rqariufactured product. 

Arqorig tl\eQe are tt\e flrgeritir|e Sn\eltiqg^ 
arid Refir\ir\g Wor^s, the LARGEST ll^ the'I^ 
WORLD, arid a sirqilar plaT\t is yearly ready ^ 
for operation at Lovelace, tlrjree n|iles av^ay. 

1Y\e preser^t city is coir\posed of tt[e forn\erj 
Izities of Wyaridotte, Srrqoiirdale ar\d Kar\sas| 
City, corisolidated sonje tt^ree years sir\ce' 
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Marcl), 1889, as stio^^ri by \\q State cer|sils 
tl-ieq taKeri, \\?as 36,729, arid at ttie present 
tirqe car] be little less ttiari 40,000. Tl^e 
official cerisils of iW.arcl\ "Was sustair|ed later 
ir| tl]e seasoi) by tl)e largest registration of 
voters, arid tl\e rqost riiin\erous -vote cast iri 
No Verqber by ar[y city, tl|iis coqf irrqir^g its title 
of "rqetropolis" ir| tl]e ii|atter of populatior^. 
"KHNSflS CITY" l)as at least X^o liqes of 
biisir\ess of siicl) ir^agriitifde as to ir\aKe it 
farqous aroilrjd tl)e globe; or|e of tl^ese is 
tlrie slaiigl^teririg, ciirir[g aqd st|ippir\g of 
rqeats oq a scale exceeded by oqly or^e city 
\T{ tt^e -world, ir| -Wliicti are er[gaged tt\e iir\- 
]T\er\se establisl|rqerits of tl\e Krrqoars, ttie 
Foolers, tl\e Sv^ifts, Kir]gari, flllciitt, Morris 
Biitts S: Co., arid ottiers ; tl|e ott[er tt|e rqost ex- 
ter|sive live-stocX rqar^et, -Witt) a single excep- 
tion, ever bxlilt up. 

These are in Kansas City, Kansas. 



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tered 



Hogs , 
Cattle , 
Sheep 



1,728,698 
433,580 
175,657 



S]:\ipir\er|ts of rqeat products frorq th|ese 
establistin^erits duririg 1888 ar|d 1889 rqay 
be learrjed frorq tl^is table : 






1888. 


1889. 




POUNDS. 


POUNDS. 


Fresh Beef 

Mess Beef 

Can Beef 

Bacon 

Mess Pork 

Lard 

Tallow 

Oleomargarine 


141,414,100 

433,000 

2,721,354 

259,914,315 

3,144,200 

42,270,742 

7,401,200 

6,000,000 


215,387,100 

2,038,000 

1,033,350 

243,052,940 

9,605,000 

42,190,500 

12,092,000 

10,000,000 


Total 


463,298,911 


535,398,890 



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Tlie follo-wirig official figures ir\dicate 
gro^t]:| ar\d n\agr\itiide of ti^e receipts at' 
tt^e Kar\sas City, Kar\sas, stocK yards sirice 
t]:\eir establislrirqer^t. 











HORSES 


YEAR. 


CATTLE. 


HOGS. 
41,036 


SHEEP. 


AND 

MULES. 


1871 . . . 


120,827 


4,527 


809 


1872 








236,802 


104,639 


6,071 


2,648 


1873 








227,689 


221,815 


5,975 


4,202 


1874 








207,080 


212,532 


8,855 


3,679 


1875 








174,754 


63,350 


25,327 


2,646 


1876 








183 378 


153,777 


55,045 


5,339 


1877 








215,768 


192,645 


42,190 


4,279 


1878 








175,344 


427,777 


36,700 


10,796 


1879 








211,415 


588,908 


61,684 


15,829 


1880 








244,709 


676,477 


50,611 


14,086 


1881 








285,863 


1.014,304 


79,924 


12,592 


1882 








439,671 


963,036 


80,724 


11,716 


1883 








460,780 


1,379,401 


119,665 


19,860 


1884 








533,526 


1,723,586 


237,964 


27,163 


1885 








506,627 


2,358,718 


221,801 


24,506 


1886 








490,971 


2,264,484 


172,659 


33,188 


1887 








669,224 


2,423,262 


209,956 


29,690 


1888 








1,056,086 


2,008,984 


351,050 


27,650 


1889 








1,220,343 


2,073,910 


370,772 


34,563 


Total . . 


7,660,857 


18,892,641 


2,141,500 


285,241 




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(Possibly you l{ad by socqe n\ear|S coii\e to 
suppose tl:\at ti^ese Vast busii|esses ]\ad tl^eir 
seat ir\ Kansas City, Missouri, instead of 
Kansas, but you are r\ot alor\e, for niai\y 
aiiotl^er iqtelligerit persor\ lias f alleq ir\to ttie 
sarqe error.) 



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@ BANK CLEARINGS. ® 

Tt^e bar\K: clearir\gs of Kansas City (ttie sur- 
est index of business actually done) tiave, by 
tl^ieir gro^y^tti ar\d Eqagriitude for soir\e years 
beer) aq astor|isliii\er|t to strangers. Ii) aii\our|t 
its clearings are nov^ oqly exceeded ir\ nine 
ott^er ilir\ericaq cities, ar[d tl:\e follo^Wing 
sl:\0"Ws ttjeir increase and volUine during cr 
period of t^Welve years : 

1878-79 $25,924,626 

1879-80 43,642,418 

1880-81 54,862,800 

1881-82 81,212,600 

1882-83 120,279,900 

1883-84 147,620,485 

1884-85 204,333,144 

1885-86 251,963,441 

1886-87 353,894,458 

1887-88 386,919,258 

1888-89 444,249,274 

1889, 12 months 449,479,474 

It is estimated that from 50 to 70 per cent of these 
clearings are from business done in Kansas City, Kansas. 

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® ® BUILDING. ® ® 

"Between $4,000,000 and $5,000,000 were expended in 
1889 for new buildings in the city, and 3,000, or even 
more, elegant structures grace lots that on January 1st 
were vacant and unadorned," says the Daily Gazette. 

"This statement is based upon a thorough and system- 
atic survey of the whole city, and from the records of the 
City Treasurer's office, of the building permits issued 
from August 5th to the end of the year. * * The 
class of buildings erected in 1889 is far superior to 
any built prior to this time, taken as a whole. In 
business houses the change has been pronounced and 
remarkable. Minnesota avenue a few, and a very few 
years ago, could boast of no office buildings that were 
such as should adorn a principal street of a city like 
this, but a vast change has come o'er the appearance 
of that thoroughfare, and especially in the last year. 
Nearly a quarter of a million dollars have been ex- 
pended in buildings on this street during the year, and 
the structures erected are as handsome and substan- 
tial as any in the West. * * The section of the city, 
however, in which the bulk of the building was done 
is north of Minnesota avenue, and fully 1,500 houses 
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have been erected in that locality during 1889. The 
various additions that adorn that part of the city have 
been fairly alive with carpenters, bricklayers, painters 
and plasterers during the year. It has been impossible 
to stand at any point without seeing from one to a 
dozen houses under process of construction. One of 
the factors that have done so much to build up and 
populate this part of the city is the excellent system of 
rapid transit with which it is blessed. The western 
and southwestern parts of the city, the central and 
southern parts have been blessed in the same manner, 
and wherever the street car goes there the houses 
spring up. * * The dwellings and business buildings 
put up during the year range in value from $200 to 
$130,000, but a fair estimate of the average value of 
each of the 3,000 structures erected would be $1,400, 
making a total of $4,200,000 expended in buildings 
during the year." 



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® ® STREETS. ® ® 

' Ot s to street irqproverqerits cqade ir\ Kar\sas 
qJ -*- City, Kansas, "Witl\ir| a recer\t period, 
tl^e city er\gir[eer's booK;s present figures 
slrioiA^irig ttiat, iri 1888, eig]:|teer| ar\d OT[e-l\alf 
rqiles of street -were graded, reqiliririg tJ:\e 
rqoverqer\t of 1,210,592 cubic yards of eartti; 
iri 1889, six aqd or\e-tialf rqiles i^^ere graded, 
arid 607,134 yards irioved. Iri 1888 fi^e arid 
ttiree-foiirtlis iriiles of street -Were paVed, aqd 
iri 1889 six arid tv^o-tliirds rqiles sirriilarly 
treated "Witlq cedar blocK, asplqalt, vitrified 
bricK or rqacadarri. 



C^ity apd Suburban Jrapsportatiop. 

Ttie Karisas Citys are proud of tlqeir 
elevated, cable ar^d electric liqes of rapid 
transit, -wlqicli, "Wiriter ar^d surqrrier, quickly, 
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safely arid cocqfortably transport ovei' n\iles 
ar\d iritles of siiperb roadv^ay tt^e people to 
ai\d frorq tl:\e business ceriters or resideqce 
suburbs for t]:\e Uqiforrq fare of five ceqts. 
Tl^e elevated or "L" systenq (rr|Ostly ir\ Kari- 
sas City, Kar\sas) tias sorqe eigl:\t n\iles of 
double tracK, ar\d several ii\iles of exter\sioris 
are beir)g cor\structed. Tt[e Metropolitan 
cable systerq is so developed ar\d corqpleted 
tl\at passerigers are tal^eq Up at tlr^e outer 
liir\its of oqe city ar^d carried to tt\e renqote 
confers of tt^e ottier for a r\icKel. Several 
ottier lir\es furr\is]:\ sirqilar extended service, 
ar|d a double traciv electric rqotor lir\e coq- 
r\ects ttie t^o cities -witti fl.-rger|tirie, seat of 
ttie great sn\eltirig enterprise, ttiree rqiles up 
ttie Ka-W Valley. 





LIGHTING. ® ® 

(OTHE' city is n\air|ly illurqirjated ^itt\ elec- 
*-'- trie ligtits. R coniplete systeii\ of -Water 
-worKs f urr\isties Y?ater to every part of ttie 
city, ar\d. telep]:\or\e lir\es cor\r|ect it "Witl:\ all 
its r\eiglibors. 




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Tlrie pride of Kar\sas is its free scliool 
systerq ar^d tl^e excellent pilblic sctiools re- 
sulting tt^erefroiii. Noi]e of its cities are 
Eqore lavisl^ly equipped \^itl:\ graded ar\d tiigti 
sclriools, cor|Ver\ier\t to tl\eir every part, tl|ar[ 
KarisasCity. Iq 1889, tt^e city occupied for 
its public scliools 21 buildings, cor\tair|irig 210 
roorqs, a^d accoii\ir\odatirig 6,000 pupils. II 
recqarKable fact iq cor\r[ectior\ -witl\ tl\is is 
tt)at duririg tl^e year about 84 per cer\t of tl\e 
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total sctiool populatioq "Was enrolled ar\d 
ta^ir^g advantage of tl:\ese \\?o^derful oppor- 
tur\ities for a free educatior\. 



= = CHURCHES. = = 

(q)IKE BrooKlyil, Kai\sas City, Kar\sas, arid 
j.!^^ its rieiglibor as ^ell, rr\ay be called 
trie city of clixircties. Muc]:\ ii\or\ey is beir^g 
expended by Various cor\gregatior|s iq pro- 
Vidir\g ]:\ar\dsoir|e ai\d spacious tjouses of 
lA^orstiip, ai\d R. D., 1890, ^ill be especially 
a year of extensive c]:\urcl\ erectior\. Tl\e 
pronjoters of tl^ese place great Value or\ tt\e 
^o^X of tl\e Suqday-Scliool, ar\d ii\ucl:\ effort 
is giver\ to it. illl are liberally supported, 
as is ttie Yourig iVLeq's Ctiristiaq flssociatiori 
ar\d orgar\i2;atior\s of li^e ctiaracter. 
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'T'T is a cause of r\o little astor\isl:\n\er\t 
41 to ir\ar\y to learq foi" tt\e first tirqe 
ttiat statistics st^ov^ Kar\sas City, Kansas, iias 
a larger i)eigt[borir\g ar\d tributary popula- 
tioi), -Wittiiq a radiils of 65 rqiles, tl:\ar| eitt^er 
Ctiicago, St. lyOxiis or St. Paxil ar|d iVlir\i|eapo- 
lis corr\bir\ed, tt\iis : 

Chicago has .......... 510,000 

St. Louis has 548,000 

Minneapolis and St. Paul 392,640 

Kansas City 738,000 






^THE foregoing pages faintly outline 
some of the features wMch those 
who know Kansas and. Its commercial 
emporium most thoroughly regard, as 
attractive. 

The writer, twenty-four years a resi- 
dent and. a seeker after the hest, has 
learned, of no others in which are com- 
bined, so many of those elements of 
healthful, prosperous, comfortable liv- 
ing, or where a people are more alive to 
and. ahreast of the best nineteenth- 
century ideas. 

The Company issuing this booklet is 
probably better equipped to give relia- 
ble Information, as to values of proper- 

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ties and opportunixies for iiome-makmg 
or money-doulolmg Investmeiits in the 
city wliere located, tlian any otlier con- 
cern of its kind. It controls a dozen 
inside additions in tlie most desirable, 
sightly portions of the city, pleasantly 
convenient to quick transit lines and 
the other many modern helps to good 
living. By virtue of its extensive busi- 
ness and large capital it is enabled to 
make such terms and prices to Its 
clients that a home or valuable prop- 
erty can be bought on easy installments, 
with prospects of greatly enhanced 
values before the final payments be- 
come due. 



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A prominent feature of tlie Company's 
business is tlie "building of houses suctL 
as lot-puroliasers may plan, tlius put- 
ting a customer in possession of a com- 
plete home, witli no rental to pay, leav- 
ing the amount that would represent to 
apply with other earnings toward an 
easy and gradual wiping out of the 
purchase price. 

Those interested in the matters men- 
tioned or in having an identity, a home 
or an investment, in the section named, 
are cordially invited to communicate 
with 

The HustGd Investment Cd,j 

KANSAS CITY. KANSAS 
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^ThE Company's facilities for investing sur- 
J- plus funds at profitable rates of interest, 
secured by first mortgage on approved productive 
realty in the Two Kansas Citys, are unsurpassed. 
Choice securities of that class, based on prop- 
erty at not more than two-fifths its appraised 
value, can be furnished on call, in amounts 
large or small, as investors may desire. Those 
of $200 to $2,000 are found excellent for wage- 
earners and persons of limited means. 

Debenture bonds of the Company, backed by 
its capital as well as the securing mortgages, in 
sums of $250, $500 and $1,000, running seven 
or twelve years with six per cent interest cou- 
pons payable half yearly at the home of the 
holder, are prime favorites with judicious owners 
of spare money. 



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KANSAS EXERCISES THE SAME FASCINATION OVER 
ME AS SHE DOES OVER ALL WHO HAVE EVER YIELDED 
TO HER SPELL, THERE ARE SOME WOMEN WHOM TO 
HAVE ONCE LOVED RENDERS IT IMPOSSIBLE EVER TO 
LOVE AGAIN. AS THE "GRAY AND MELANCHOLY MAIN" 
TO THE SAILOR, THE DESERT TO THE BEDOUIN, THE 
ALPS TO THE MOUNTAINEER, SO IS KANSAS TO HER 
CHILDREN. — John J. Ingalls. 



KANSAS IS A FAVORED LAND, WHERE THE SWEET- 
NESS OF THE VIOLET'S DEEP BLUE EYES, KISSED BY 
THE BREATH OF HEAVEN, SEEMS COLORED BY ITS SKIES. 

—Detroit Free Press. 



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